"James Bond music The ""James Bond"" film series from Eon Productions features numerous musical compositions since its inception in 1962, many of which are now considered classic pieces of British film music. The best known of these pieces is the ubiquitous ""James Bond Theme"". Other instrumentals, such as the ""007 Theme"" or ""On Her Majesty's Secret Service"", and various songs, such as Shirley Bassey's ""Goldfinger"", Paul McCartney's ""Live and Let Die"", Carly Simon's ""Nobody Does It Better"", Sheena Easton's ""For Your Eyes Only"" and Duran Duran's ""A View to a Kill"" have also become identified with the series. Two Bond"
"popularly known among film fans as the ""Renault stairs"", as they featured in a scene in A View to a Kill where James Bond (played by Roger Moore) drove a hijacked Renault 11 taxi down the steps in pursuit of an assassin later revealed to be May Day (Grace Jones). Pont d'Iéna Pont d'Iéna (""Jena Bridge"") is a bridge spanning the River Seine in Paris. It links the Eiffel Tower on the Left Bank to the district of Trocadéro on the Right Bank. In 1807, Napoleon I ordered, by an imperial decree issued in Warsaw, the construction of a bridge"
"which Bond (played for the last time by Roger Moore) drove a Renault 11 taxi which he had hijacked at the Eiffel Tower in pursuit of a mysterious assassin, later revealed to be May Day (Grace Jones). The Champ de Mars will be the site of Beach Volleyball at the 2024 Summer Olympics and of five-a-side football at the 2024 Summer Paralympics. Champ de Mars The Champ de Mars ( ; ) is a large public greenspace in Paris, France, located in the seventh ""arrondissement"", between the Eiffel Tower to the northwest and the École Militaire to the southeast. The"
"building on the River Thames at Vauxhall. The 1999 film ""The World Is Not Enough"" (#1 in U.S.) opens with an extended boat chase from the MI6 building down the river to the Millennium Dome, while in ""Die Another Day"" (2002) (#1 in U.S.) Bond visits a secret base in a disused Underground station, and makes a rare trip to his club Blades. Also in the 2012 Bond movie ""Skyfall"" (#1 in U.S.), Bond spends more time in London. First while he visits M's house to get back to service. Then to new underground office of MI6, then to the"
"of Champagne for 10 years. The winemaker has also used the popular James Bond film series as a marketing device. In the 1973 film ""Live and Let Die"", James Bond (played by Roger Moore) is heard asking for a bottle of Bollinger after entering his hotel. In the 1985 film ""A View to a Kill"", James Bond recognizes the champagne served at the top of the Eiffel Tower as ""Bollinger, [19]75."" In the 1987 film ""The Living Daylights"", James Bond (played by Timothy Dalton) delivers a gift basket to General Koskov who, seeing the champagne, exclaims ""Bollinger R.D...The Best!"" In"
"and branded it a welcome addition to the series, while others complained of the repetitively monotonous aquatic action and prolonged length. In 1983, Warner Bros. released a second film adaptation of the novel under the title ""Never Say Never Again"", with McClory as executive producer. James Bond attends the funeral of Colonel Jacques Bouvar, a SPECTRE operative connected with the previous murders of two MI6 agents. Bouvar is alive and disguised as his own widow, but Bond identifies him. Pursuing Bouvar to his château, Bond fights and kills him, escaping with use of a jetpack and his Aston Martin DB5,"
"that he had suffered while in France.After arriving in Rio de Janeiro, Moore was immediately whisked off the plane and went straight to hair and make-up work, before re-boarding the plane, to film the sequence with him arriving as James Bond in the film. Sugarloaf Mountain was a prominent location in the film, and during filming of the cable car sequence in which Bond and Goodhead are attacked by Jaws during mid-air transportation high above Rio de Janeiro, the stuntman Richard Graydon slipped and narrowly avoided falling to his death. For the scene in which Jaws bites into the steel"
"side and the 19th highest in Bangkok. Today, Sinn Sathorn Tower is the 25th tallest building in Thailand. It was opened as a rental building. The location of the commercial offices, in 1997 was used as a filming location for the James Bond series, ""Tomorrow Never Dies"" by assuming the head office of Elliot Carver (Jonathan Pryce) in Saigon, Vietnam, where James Bond (Pierce Brosnan) jumped from the top of the building, along with Wai Lin (Michelle Yeoh) by the handcuffs. This is another highlight scene in the film. Sinn Sathorn Tower Sinn Sathorn Tower () is a skyscraper in"
"from the Au Bon Marché store in Paris, but it was lost in 1966. However, the cage-like elevators and the stained-glass ceiling designed by French artisan Jacques Grüber are all originals. The pattern of the glass ceiling is meant to evoke the railroad, at that time the symbol of modernity. At the center of the domed glass are three medallions. The building was converted to a hotel in 1968 to accommodate crowds attending the 1968 Summer Olympics. It has been featured in multiple films, including the James Bond films ""Licence to Kill"" and ""Spectre"" and the Palme d'Or-winning political drama"
"Auric Goldfinger and Oddjob from ""Goldfinger"", and Baron Samedi from ""Live and Let Die"". Players can customize multiplayer settings before playing. However, one disadvantage to this is that the game will not save the alterations players make to the multiplayer mode. In Paris, James Bond (voiced by Maxwell Caulfield with the likeness of Pierce Brosnan) helps French Intelligence operative Dominique Paradis evade a gang chase while chasing a truck with a stolen nuclear weapon, before continuing in his Aston Martin V12 Vanquish. After preventing the truck from blowing up the Eiffel Tower, Dominique and Bond celebrate New Year's Eve. The"
"developed by Angelsoft, Inc. and published by Mindscape. Domark created an action game split into three separate sections, inspired by scenes from the film. The game starts with the famous movie intro sequence of the moving gunsight and Bond shooting towards the camera. In the first section set in Paris, James Bond commandeers a taxi to follow May Day who has parachuted from the Eiffel Tower. Roadblocks and police cars are out to stop Bond, who can shoot his pistol at them to get them out of the way. The display is in three sections - an overhead map of"
"years before it was built. Britain's most famous spy, James Bond, generally spends little time in London, other than to receive his orders from his boss 'M'. However, some of the films do feature locations in the city. These include ""On Her Majesty's Secret Service"" (1969) (#1 in U.S.) in which George Lazenby as Bond visits the College of Arms and ""For Your Eyes Only"" (1981) (#1 in U.S.), in which Roger Moore experiences a hair-raising helicopter flight over the Docklands area. In the more recent Pierce Brosnan films, the Secret Service's headquarters are identified as being the new MI6"
"Art Gallery to meet the new Quartermaster. After returning from Shanghai also, Bond spends time in London before going to Scotland. He chases Silva in London Tube and other areas in London. Also at the end of Movie, Bond sees London from his office terrace. The 1967 version of ""Casino Royale"" makes extensive use of London locations, including 10 Downing Street, Whitehall, Trafalgar Square (with Nelson's Column replaced by a flying saucer) as well as the Changing of the Guard outside Buckingham Palace. Parts of Christopher Nolan's ""The Dark Knight Rises"" (2012) (#1 in U.S.) were also filmed in London."
"by John Barry, titled ""A View To A Kill (That Fatal Kiss)"". The song was the last track that the original five members of Duran Duran recorded together until 2001. The video for the single was directed by the duo Godley & Creme, with shots of the band at the Eiffel Tower intercut with scenes from the movie, so that it appears that Roger Moore and Grace Jones are participating in the same storyline. The singer ends the video with a parody of James Bond, introducing himself as ""Bon. Simon Le Bon."" During the opening teaser, a cover version of"
"film's action sequences, but felt that the film was less impressive than its predecessor ""Casino Royale"". , it is the fourth-highest-grossing ""James Bond"" film, without adjusting for inflation, earning $586 million worldwide, and becoming the seventh highest-grossing film of 2008. James Bond is driving from Lake Garda to Siena, Italy, with the captured Mr. White (Jesper Christensen) in the boot of his car. After evading pursuers, Bond delivers White to M, who interrogates him regarding his organisation, Quantum. M's bodyguard, Craig Mitchell (Glenn Foster), is a double agent; he attacks M, enabling White to escape. Bond chases Mitchell and kills"
"a moving freighter. The stunt was done live, with no special effects, by base jumpers Martin Rosén and Per Eriksson, members of the Swedish ""Team Bautasten"". The scene was filmed by air-to-air cameraman Mikael Nordqvist, from the same team. Since the 1976 Mount Asgard jump featured in the pre-credit sequence to ""The Spy Who Loved Me"", James Bond movies have featured several BASE jumps, including one from the Eiffel Tower in 1985's ""A View to a Kill"", the Rock of Gibraltar in 1987's ""The Living Daylights"", and in 2002's ""Die Another Day"", Pierce Brosnan as James Bond jumps from a"
"glamorous location for Elizabeth Taylor in ""Ash Wednesday"" (1973), and was also a major location for the 1981 James Bond film ""For Your Eyes Only"". Roger Moore's James Bond meets the character Luigi Ferrara (John Moreno) at the peak of Tofana and stays at the Hotel Miramonti. A number of action sequences were shot in the town involving Bond and Erich Kriegler (John Wyman), as Kriegler competes in the biathlon. The battle culminates in one of the famous ski chase sequences in film, where Bond has to escape Kriegler and a crew of assassins on a spike-wheeled motorcycles, his route"
"acclaimed, earning him a BAFTA award nomination. ""Casino Royale"" became the highest-grossing in the series at the time. ""Quantum of Solace"" followed two years later. Craig's third Bond film, ""Skyfall"", premiered in 2012 and is currently the highest-grossing film in the series and the twentieth highest-grossing film of all time; it was also the highest-grossing film in the United Kingdom until 2015. Craig's fourth Bond film, ""Spectre"", premiered in 2015. He also made a guest appearance as Bond in the opening ceremony of the London 2012 Olympic Games, alongside Queen Elizabeth II. His fifth (and, possibly, final) Bond film, currently"
"melting iceberg. Of the James Bond jumps, only the Mount Asgard and Eiffel Tower jumps were filmed live; the rest were special effects. In 2005's ""Batman Begins"", Bruce Wayne uses BASE jumping as inspiration for his memory cloth cape. A series of BASE jumps are featured in the video for a remix of M83's ""Lower Your Eyelids to Die With the Sun"". The 1938 Sierra Club film ""Three on a Rope"" ends with a climber jumping off Baldy Mountain rather than dealing with the hassle of rappelling, to the horror of a climbing partner, only to deploy a parachute hidden"
"November 1995. The UK premiere, attended by Prince Charles, followed on 22 November at the Odeon Leicester Square, with general release two days later. Brosnan boycotted the French premiere to support Greenpeace's protest against the French nuclear testing program. The film earned over $26 million during its opening across 2,667 cinemas in the United States. Its worldwide sales were around the equivalent of $350 million. It had the fourth-highest worldwide gross of all films in 1995 and was the most successful Bond film since ""Moonraker"", taking inflation into account. The film was edited to be guaranteed a PG-13 rating from"
"the Eiffel Tower by a bodyguard of Franck (Gilbert Melki), who also demands Andre repay him owed money. Desperate, Andre pleads his case to both the American embassy and a Paris police station, though neither is able to help him. Andre decides to kill himself by jumping off a bridge into the Seine, but first he notices a beautiful young woman (Rie Rasmussen) who is also standing over the railing. The woman jumps off the bridge, and Andre jumps in after her, dragging her to safety. The woman states her name is Angela, and that she jumped because she had"
"up and down the Eiffel Tower and through Paris streets, which Bond finishes in a severed car on just two wheels. But none of the action prepares the viewer for the heart-stopping climax with Zorin's dirigible tangled in the cables on top of San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge."" And although O'Toole believed that Moore was showing his age in the role, ""there are plenty of tunes left in his violin. James Bond is still a virtuoso, with a licence to thrill."" Brian J. Arthurs of ""The Beach Reporter"" said it was the worst film of the Bond series. Chris Peachment"
"Bond out of retirement, he orders the military to fire mortars at Bond's mansion when the retired spy refuses to return to duty. The first quarter of the film features Bond's subsequent visit to McTarry Castle in Scotland, on a quest to return the only piece of M's remains recovered after the attack—his bright red toupée. Subsequently, Bond—played by David Niven—becomes the new M and proceeds to order that all MI6 agents, male and female, be renamed ""James Bond 007"" in order to confuse the enemy. In 1983's ""Never Say Never Again"", Edward Fox played M as a bureaucrat, contemptuous"
"both London and Paris. The scenes show a London still marked by bomb sites from the Second World War. In the car chase scene at the end of the film, an officer uses a police box to report seeing a police car being driven by a man in a top hat. In fact, the driver is wearing the uniform of the police as originally set up in 1829 by Sir Robert Peel, known as ""Bobbies"" or ""Peelers."" The scene where Holland and Pendlebury run down the Eiffel Tower steps and become increasingly dizzy and erratic, as does the camera work,"
"James Bond movie ""Die Another Day"", ""The Quiller Memorandum"" (1966), ""The Man Who Haunted Himself"" (1970), Lindsay Anderson's ""O Lucky Man!"" (1973), ""The Avengers"" (1998), ""Nicholas Nickleby"" (2002), ""Quantum of Solace"" (2008) and ""Sherlock Holmes"" (2009). It has also been used as the lobby of the Dolphin Hotel in the film adaptation of Stephen King's short story ""1408."" In the 1982 BBC television adaptation of ""Smiley's People"", based on the Cold War spy thriller by John le Carré, the titular character visits the Reform Club at the start of the third episode, spending an extended period of time in the"
"pursue. As part of the settlement, MGM paid $10 million for the rights to ""Casino Royale"", which had come into Sony's possession. Daniel Craig played Bond in a short film, ""Happy and Glorious"", produced by Lisa Osborne for the BBC and directed by Danny Boyle as part of the opening ceremony of the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. In the film Bond is summoned to Buckingham Palace by Queen Elizabeth II—played by herself—and escorts her by helicopter to the Olympic Stadium. Bond and Her Majesty jump from the helicopter into the stadium with Union Flag parachutes. For the parachute jump,"
"""Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow"" (2004), ""Body Armour"" (2007) and ""Traveller"" (2013). His other film credits include ""Tomb Raider 2"", ""Batman Begins"", and the James Bond films ""Tomorrow Never Dies"" (1997) and ""Skyfall"" (2012). Bonfils also performed in the West End: ""Miss Saigon"" at Drury Lane, Theatre Royal London and ""The King & I"" at London Palladium where he performed the lead with Elaine Paige. Bonfils also had a brief modelling career, before starting acting, modelling for Michiko Kochino, Hermes, Oswald Boateng and more. On 5 January 2015, Bonfils was rehearsing an upcoming stage production of Dante's ""Inferno"""
"in a hang glider and flies off with Phantom R. After a crash landing, Phantom R makes his way across Paris to put a stop to Napoleon's plans. Napoleon threatens Marie with the life of her mother (who turns out to be Duchess Elisabeth) and forces her to play her violin. As she finishes the song, the Hanging Gardens of Babylon emerge from the ground and float over the city. Napoleon declares them his ""greatest possession, most powerful of all weapons."" The Gardens create a huge storm which begins to destroy the city. Phantom R climbs the Eiffel Tower and"
"films list compiled by the British Film Institute. After destroying a drug laboratory in Latin America, James Bond—Agent 007—travels to Miami Beach for a vacation. He receives instructions from his superior, M, via CIA agent Felix Leiter. He is to observe bullion dealer Auric Goldfinger at the hotel there. Bond sees Goldfinger cheating at gin rummy and stops him by distracting his employee, Jill Masterson, and blackmailing Goldfinger into losing. After Bond and Jill consummate their new relationship, Bond is knocked out by Goldfinger's Korean manservant Oddjob. When Bond awakens, he finds Jill dead, covered in gold paint, having died"
"the 2002 film ""Die Another Day"", James Bond (played by Pierce Brosnan) is heard asking for a bottle of 1961 Bollinger immediately after being released from a North Korean prison. In ""The World Is Not Enough"", James Bond (Pierce Brosnan) beds the female lead alongside an iced bottle of Bollinger. In the 2006 film ""Casino Royale"", James Bond (played by Daniel Craig) also requests a bottle of Bollinger. There is also a bottle in his car at the end of the car chase at the start of ""GoldenEye"". Bollinger is one of the last remaining independent Champagne houses. Family-managed since"
"Moonraker (film) Moonraker is a 1979 British spy film, the eleventh in the ""James Bond"" series produced by Eon Productions, and the fourth to star Roger Moore as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond. The third and final film in the series to be directed by Lewis Gilbert, it co-stars Lois Chiles, Michael Lonsdale, Corinne Cléry, and Richard Kiel. Bond investigates the theft of a space shuttle, leading him to Hugo Drax, the owner of the shuttle's manufacturing firm. Along with space scientist Dr. Holly Goodhead, Bond follows the trail from California to Venice, Rio de Janeiro, and the Amazon"
"past the London Eye, St Paul's Cathedral, the financial district City of London. The helicopter then passed through Tower Bridge, accompanied by the Dambusters March. The film finished with Bond and the Queen apparently jumping from a real helicopter live above the stadium, accompanied by the ""James Bond Theme"". The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh, along with Rogge, were then introduced to the audience. The Queen was wearing the same dress as in the film, as if she had just arrived with James Bond. For the scenes with the helicopter, the Queen was doubled by actress Julia McKenzie, and"
"two films. After a six-year hiatus, during which a legal wrangle threatened Eon's productions of the Bond films, Irish actor Pierce Brosnan was cast as Bond in ""GoldenEye"", released in 1995; he remained in the role for a total of four films, before leaving in 2002. In 2006, Daniel Craig was given the role of Bond for ""Casino Royale"", which rebooted the series. Craig has appeared for a total of four films and his fifth is scheduled for release in 2020. The series has grossed almost $7 billion to date, making it the third-highest-grossing film series (behind ""Harry Potter"" and"